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Drop in mood

  • 30-05-2011 9:28pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    OK, so as the title says, recently my mood has dropped and am wondering if you think it is worth going to the doctor for, or if it is a passing thing.

    I am 19 year old female and have just finished my second year in college, studying a course I love and have great friends both at home and at college. I went quite low in mood from sept-dec of first year but I put that down to adjusting to new surroundings/living arangements and was withdrawn and quiet. Again this year when college started I began sinking further into myself from sept onwards and by Dec-Jan I had suicidal thoughts. Although I don't think I would ever act, I know how I would do it. Also from Jan I began reverting back to old eating habbits i developed when I was around 14 - 17, and soon began restricting my caloric intake, fasting (my fasts now usually last 7days) and if I go over my limit i make myself throw it up again.

    This is not the problem though, but i thought I would throw it in to show the changes in things. The problem is I'm becoming unhappy again, and it's lasting much later into the year than it did in first year. By semester 2 of first year I was becoming happier, but this semester (sem 2 of 2nd year) I am still sad. I am having the suicidal thoughts again although I now have a second idea. I have just got a summer job which I am TERRIFIED of starting, and am feeling really sick at the thought of it. I really don't want to be unhappy any more, but at the same time am unsure if anything can be done. Opinions? Any response is appreciated x


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  • #2
    Ian Beale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Ian Beale


    Going to a doctor would be a very good idea, there's always options and your doctor would be the best person to talk you about them.


  • #3
    cungryhunt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭cungryhunt


    Mood is weird like that.

    Some people (and I know many that fit this exactly) are born in slums, work, live their lives poor as pig poop, never get to go to a university, have to work hard from early childhood, but yet still can always be happy and not get "down" or feel suicidal.

    Others can be given everything, have free university and study something they love, come from a wealthy country, have great friends, and only have to work during the summers, yet still may feel down and suicidal for no apparent reason.

    My advice: Everybody is different. Don't think that you are "weak" or "inferior" to another person who is happy. Just dig into your course work, dig into your job, do things that please you, and try to be happy.

    Killing yourself is not something that you should do. Just try to relax and be happy in your life. If you can't do that, then a doctor can prescribe you some medication to alter your brain chemistry to not feel so sad (but wont automatically make you happy, that part is your job).


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